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I have noticed a trend lately among the news media. They seem to be totally into Atlanta Georgia. Just yesterday I watched some news. On CNN there was the Mayor of Atlanta, a younger looking black man, who was talking about transportation issues. I really do not know why the Mayor of Atlanta is an "expert" on the subject of transportation but there he was.
Then, later, on the NBC nightly news, there was a long story about the city trying to get 2 historical churches to move so they can build a new football stadium next to the old football stadium that is only 20 years old (I guess they got lots of money down there). Is that something the rest of the country really cares about?
Then, this morning, I turned on the Weather Channel and, as usual, they had to tell us what the weather was "outside here in Atlanta". Yes, I am aware they have nice winters down there but why do they think any of the other 300 million of us that don't live there care what the temperature is down there?
I fail to understand why Atlanta is always on the news everywhere but a much larger city like Chicago is never on the news unless it is about shootings or bad schools. You know we are 3 times as big as Atlanta and we have alot of good things going on here too. And we have 2 baseball teams, one of which says they might leave. Where is the news media??
And Chicago is always in the news about Rahm ramming some crazy crap down the residents throat. Or some hoods gunning down babies or how bankrupt the city is because of liberal policies.
I have noticed a trend lately among the news media. They seem to be totally into Atlanta Georgia. Just yesterday I watched some news. On CNN there was the Mayor of Atlanta, a younger looking black man, who was talking about transportation issues. I really do not know why the Mayor of Atlanta is an "expert" on the subject of transportation but there he was.
Then, later, on the NBC nightly news, there was a long story about the city trying to get 2 historical churches to move so they can build a new football stadium next to the old football stadium that is only 20 years old (I guess they got lots of money down there). Is that something the rest of the country really cares about?
Then, this morning, I turned on the Weather Channel and, as usual, they had to tell us what the weather was "outside here in Atlanta". Yes, I am aware they have nice winters down there but why do they think any of the other 300 million of us that don't live there care what the temperature is down there?
I fail to understand why Atlanta is always on the news everywhere but a much larger city like Chicago is never on the news unless it is about shootings or bad schools. You know we are 3 times as big as Atlanta and we have alot of good things going on here too. And we have 2 baseball teams, one of which says they might leave. Where is the news media??
We can thank Ted Turner (aka The Mouth of the South) who realized that Cable Tv needed content to fill up hundreds of channels 24 hours a day. he bought a an obscure UHF station in Atlanta and redesignated it as WTNT the first Superstation put it on Cable from coast to coast and created Turner Netwoork Television. He bought the Atlanta Braves and with a stroke of the wand they became America's Team. He bought up the film achieve of MGM and created the Turner Classic Movie Channel.
Next he realized that you could have a bunch of mediocre talking heads bloviating and news anchors blathering to fill up an hour or two and then broadcast it over and over again to fill up the hours. Pure genious that Ted who called his new venture CNN.
The center of the universe is where I am currently sitting.
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Atlanta is NOT the center of the universe!
